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...analysis to the study of strategic interaction, especially during the Cold War era as the U.S. was on the brink of nuclear warfare with the Soviet Union, Schelling is for the insightful applications in his work. “The most striking characteristic of what he did in the 1950s and ’60s was to demonstrate precisely that this somewhat arcane tool...was not just a mathematical toy but actually could help us understand the world, and also help policy makers deal with it in a more realistic way,” Stanfield Professor of International Peace Jeffry...
...last half-century; in New York City. Among Leventhal's credentials: pushing a scruffy 21-year-old Bob Dylan on stage for his first major concert-hall appearance; bringing Jacques Brel and Ravi Shankar to American audiences; and representing, at one time or another, every major figure of the 1950s-and-'60s folk-music revival, including Joan Baez and Peter, Paul and Mary. A producer of Alice's Restaurant and other movies, he was the inspiration for the central character of Irving Steinbloom in the 2003 film spoof A Mighty Wind...
...fought Germany's police force on the streets. Grainy photos showing a black-helmeted Fischer apparently punching and kicking a police officer in Frankfurt in April 1973 re-emerged in the German press four years ago. He and his contemporaries were not just throwing off the straitjacket of 1950s-style conservatism, they were asserting a separation from their elders who were compromised by their support for the Nazis. In time, the compulsive need to reject the past infused militant movements in Germany with the violence that blighted the 1970s...
...children and 80% believed in one true love. All of that is "a reaction," according to Ulrich Schneekloth, a researcher at TNS Infratest Social Research in Munich, against "the excessive individualization" of the 1968 generation. Conservative politicians have already tuned in to that social change. "The values of the 1950s are very important to us," Dieter Althaus, 47, the cdu Governor of Thuringia and a confidante of Merkel, told Time last month. "The home and the family are our focal point...
...last half-century; in New York City. Among Leventhal's credentials: pushing a scruffy 21-year-old Bob Dylan onstage for his first major concert-hall appearance; bringing Jacques Brel and Ravi Shankar to American audiences; and representing, at one time or another, every major figure of the 1950s-and-'60s folk-music revival, including Joan Baez and Peter, Paul and Mary. A producer of Alice's Restaurant and other movies, he was the inspiration for the central character of Irving Steinbloom in the 2003 film spoof A Mighty Wind...